Pluralism & Relativism
Pluralism: There is no answer to anything (pretty much)
Pluralism is split into two types:
Normative Pluralism or Nihilism - this is the acceptance of all narratives and the idea that no narratives are better than another.
Secondly, there is a kind of PoMo which is pluralist in the sense that it accepts different views, without denying that something is better than other things.
In the latter case of pluralism or PoMo we are faced with the old idea of defending other people's right to say whatever they wish, without accepting their points of view. It is this second kind which allows some form of rebuttal to criticisms of PoMo.
Jameson's analysis of PoMo attempted to view it as historically grounded; he therefore explicitly rejected any moralistic opposition to postmodernity as a cultural phenomenon, and continued to insist upon a Hegelian immanent critue that would "think the culturan evolution of late capitalism dialectically, as catastrophe and progress all together".
Linda Hutcheon on the other hand, argued that PoMo artists show greater historical sophistication, by analysing the discursive means by which historical narratives are constructed, than Jameson's account would allow.
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